On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 mirela.zalar@... wrote:
> Number of basic LINE TYPES (COLOURED) I need is at least 20:
That's hard to believe. A plot with that many datasets, all plotted as
lines, is almost guaranteed to be completely unreadable.
> I tried to edit directly WGNUIPLOT.INI adding line types lt 16 - lt 20,
> however, when I restart WGNUPLOT, still I have only 15 line types
> on the disposal.
Of course. The number of linetypes available is defined by the source
code, not by the .ini file. On top of that, the GUI display is somewhat
unlikely to be the final output, i.e. even if you did manage this, that
wouldn't change the number of linetypes available in other terminals by
one bit.
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Gentlemen,
Is there any way to set the grid to a finer display than the x and
ytics? For example,Can you set the ytics to 5 e.g. 0, 5, 10, l5
etc. yet have the y grid 0, 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, etc.
Can you make linestyle color changes permanent in a particular file?
No matter what I do in the source code (what you get when right click
the file name in the load dialog box and click <open> in the drop down
menu) or what I do through the command line (gnuplot>), and no matter
how I try to save the changes, after I close out and reopen Gnuplot
the default linestyles in that file will reappear.
Thanks much,
Mike L.
Brooklyn, NY

To whom I may concern:
Could you give me an instruction about definition of LINE TYPES:
Number of basic LINE TYPES (COLOURED) I need is at least 20:
lt 1 - lt 10 SOLID, 10 different colours
lt 11 - lt 20 DOT (or DASH), the same order of colours as lt 1 - lt 10
I tried to edit directly WGNUIPLOT.INI adding line types lt 16 - lt 20,
however, when I restart WGNUPLOT, still I have only 15 line types
on the disposal.
How to register line types in WGNUPLOT.INI that WGNUPLOT
recognizes? Terminal type is windows (WIN2000).
Thanks in advance for the help,
Mirela ZALAR
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Kevin Cahill wrote:
> gnuplot -xrm 'gnuplot*line1Color:tomato' -xrm \
> 'gnuplot*line2Color:DarkSeaGreen'
Note: if you do this on a regular basis, you'll be better off putting
those entries in your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources file.
> But when I put this trick in my makefile
>
> all : defects DEFECTS
> .PHONY : all
> DEFECTS : DEFECTS.gpt
> gnuplot -xrm 'gnuplot*line1Color:tomato' \
> -xrm 'gnuplot*line2Color:DarkSeaGreen' DEFECTS.gpt
> gnuplot2pdftex DEFECTS
It's kind of hard to see what your problem may be, since you don't give
any clue as to what's in 'DEFECTS.gpt', nor what the script
'gnuplot2pdftex' is. But from the context, it's relatively clear that
you're using a different terminal driver than X11 now.
Your problem is that you missed the context. These are X11 Resources,
not generic gnuplot options, i.e. they affect *only* the x11 driver.
Check the help on the terminal driver you're actually using to see if and
how you can modify its colour table.
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Tobias Vockerodt wrote:
> I did download gnuplot 4.0 sources from your site via ftp, I did run the
> configure-script, make, make install and now I'm getting "Terminal type
> set to unknown' after starting gnuplot. The configure-script gave out
> the line: 'checking for X... no", therfore the terminal type 'X11' is
> not installed. But I did run the configure script from within a xterm!
That almost certainly was caused by your installation lacking the X11
development packages. Start YAST as root, and install it. Then re-run
gnuplot's configure script.

Hello there!
A problem while installing gnuplot 4.0 occured to me:
I did download gnuplot 4.0 sources from your site via ftp, I did run the configure-script, make, make install and now I'm getting "Terminal type set to unknown' after starting gnuplot. The configure-script gave out the line: 'checking for X... no", therfore the terminal type 'X11' is not installed. But I did run the configure script from within a xterm!
So what should I do now? I'm not a Linux expert.
I'm using SuSE Linux 9.1 with kernel 2.6.4 on a x86-System, X11 up and runnnig (KDE).
Is it possible and senseful to modify 'Makefile' after running configure? What do I have to change to get a 'X11' terminal type?
Thanks in advance for reply/help,
Tobias Vockerodt
Germany (Lower Saxony, University of Hannover)
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ding Li wrote:
> Hi,all
>
> How do fill a region with some color which are connected by 3 or more
> points,say (0,0),(1,0),(1,1)? eg. If I want to fill the region with red
> color, how to do that?
Plot a datafile with those points 'with filledcurves'.
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Hello All,
Just FYI, we've updated the gnuplot engine at http://gnuplot.flexkb.net to
version 4.0. Many thanks to all who donated their time to this excellent
piece of software.
The flexKb (which is a hybrid of the traditional wiki-style forum) provides
both latex and gnuplot scripting. It is open content - you can edit it with
your browser. Feel free to stop by and play with it. And, if you are
inclined, leave a gem or two of gnuplot knowledge for others to share.
PS: Please note the domain name of the site recently changed, I see the link
at http://www.gnuplot.info/help.html is pointing to the old sciwikis
address. It is redirecting for now, but may not for the future. Hopefully
this note will find its way to the webmaster of gnuplot.info...
Best,
Lauren Clarke
Director,
Cornerstone Systems Northwest Inc.
http://www.cornerstonenw.com

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Mariano G. Consoni wrote:
> about gnuplot, how can I change the foreground color of
> a boxes graphic when a jpg file is generated.
The color is encoded in the 'linetype' argument, assuming your terminal
driver of choice supports coloured output at all.
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Simone Fulle wrote:
> hello, I'd like to use the short cut for "Angstrom". Does this exist?
There is no pre-made short-cut symbol for that. Whether such a symbol can
be generated at all depends on the terminal driver you're using.
Enhanced-mode terminals (originally only PostScript; now others, too) and
TeX can do it by superposition of an 'o' above an 'A'. TeX probably has
a special math-mode symbol for it as an alternative.
[That's setting aside the fact that Angstrom is an obsolote unit, and has
been for a couple of decades, so you probably shouldn't be using it any
more.]
> And is it possible to define the ylabel vertical?
That too depends on the terminal driver being used. As of version 4.0,
most major drivers to support rotated text, and will thus output the
ylabel in vertical orientation.
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Sorry for this e-mail and sorry for my poor english. I have a question
about gnuplot, how can I change the foreground color of
a boxes graphic when a jpg file is generated. I was searching for it in
google and i could not find it!
Thanks!
Mariano.-
I hope you could understand my english.
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:49:09 +0200 (CEST)
Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Martin D. Weinberg wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:42:09 +0200 (CEST)
> > Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@...> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> > >
> > > > I seem to have a problem accessing the symbol font in enhanced mode
> > > > with the png terminal. Superscripts and subscripts work fine but
> > > > use of the symbol font gives me:
> > > >
> > > > gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font
> > > >
> > > > I have installed symbol.ttf. Has anybody got a clue? Thanks!!
> > >
> > > Installed it *where*? How exactly is gnuplot informed about it?
> >
> > I copied it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype, the dir which contains the
> > truetype fonts. libgd is clearly able to find this path since it finds
> > the Arial font in this same directory, that I specified in the "set
> > terminal" command.
>
> I suspect you overlooked updating the catalog file in that directory,
> then. Generally speaking, it's probably not a good plan to tinker with
> the contents of directories owned by the distribution like that. This
> kind of work is what the /usr/local hierarchy is for.
>
> The libfreetype experts can probably enlighten your more thoroughly...
>
So here is the scoop: libgd only uses path searching to find fonts. The
reason that symbol wasn't found the first time is that I used the capital
name, e.g. "{/Symbol=18 k}", instead of symbol. When I made the new
directory in /usr/local, I had both symbol.ttf and Symbol.ttf entries.
I do agree with you about adding stuff to /usr/local rather than /usr.
Anyway, everything is now working perfectly. The advantage of writing
png directly rather than ps -> png is file size and better looking fonts.
Thanks again!

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Martin D. Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:42:09 +0200 (CEST)
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@...> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to have a problem accessing the symbol font in enhanced mode
> > > with the png terminal. Superscripts and subscripts work fine but
> > > use of the symbol font gives me:
> > >
> > > gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font
> > >
> > > I have installed symbol.ttf. Has anybody got a clue? Thanks!!
> >
> > Installed it *where*? How exactly is gnuplot informed about it?
>
> I copied it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype, the dir which contains the
> truetype fonts. libgd is clearly able to find this path since it finds
> the Arial font in this same directory, that I specified in the "set
> terminal" command.
I suspect you overlooked updating the catalog file in that directory,
then. Generally speaking, it's probably not a good plan to tinker with
the contents of directories owned by the distribution like that. This
kind of work is what the /usr/local hierarchy is for.
The libfreetype experts can probably enlighten your more thoroughly...
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:42:09 +0200 (CEST)
Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Martin Weinberg wrote:
>
> > I seem to have a problem accessing the symbol font in enhanced mode
> > with the png terminal. Superscripts and subscripts work fine but
> > use of the symbol font gives me:
> >
> > gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font
> >
> > I have installed symbol.ttf. Has anybody got a clue? Thanks!!
>
> Installed it *where*? How exactly is gnuplot informed about it?
I copied it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype, the dir which contains the
truetype fonts. libgd is clearly able to find this path since it finds
the Arial font in this same directory, that I specified in the "set
terminal" command.
> How did you try to access it?
By using a specific enhanced font command, e.g. "{/Symbol=18 k}" for
kappa.
> And what computing platform are we talking about, anyway?
Debian Linux (sarge).
I *did* manage to get this to work by coping symbol.ttf to another
directory (I used /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype) and then set the
GDFONTPATH explicitly to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype:/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype. I'm not sure
why this worked but the default location did not, but there we have it. It
works wonderfully now.
Thanks all for your replies!
--Martin

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> I seem to have a problem accessing the symbol font in enhanced mode
> with the png terminal. Superscripts and subscripts work fine but
> use of the symbol font gives me:
>
> gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font
>
> I have installed symbol.ttf. Has anybody got a clue? Thanks!!
Installed it *where*? How exactly is gnuplot informed about it?
How did you try to access it?
And what computing platform are we talking about, anyway?
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Hi folks,
I seem to have a problem accessing the symbol font in enhanced mode
with the png terminal. Superscripts and subscripts work fine but
use of the symbol font gives me:
gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font
I have installed symbol.ttf. Has anybody got a clue? Thanks!!
--Martin

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Ding Li wrote:
> Hi,all
>
> Is there a way to plot an arc through three point? say
> (0,0),(1,0),(1,1)? Thanks
Well, you could plot them as a datafile with using one of the smoothing
options. But that probably won't plot you an "arc" of the kind you're
after. Keep in mind though that this is a plotting program, not an
illustrative art generator.
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, SWlab wrote:
> * in a postscript term, is it possible to precise an offset for axis
> labelling? I'd like my tics to be slightly closer from the axis than they
> currently are.
The axis label has offsets for this, but the tic labels don't, so the
answer is no. But there may be a patch in our tracke to do this.
> * how can i set my xtics to be in, and ytics to be out ?
Can't.
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